Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology
from Tachyon Publications
Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology
from Tachyon Publications
The Baum Plan for Financial Independence: and Other Stories
by John Kessel
from Small Beer Press
“These stories offer a sustained exploration of the ways gender dynamics can both empower and enslave us. Kessel’s wit sparkles throughout, peaking with the most uproariously weird phone-sex conversation you’ll ever read (‘The Red Phone’).” Grade: A- —Entertainment Weekly
“One of the best collections of the year.”—Locus
“These well-crafted stories, full of elegantly drawn characters, deliver a powerful emotional punch.”—Publishers Weekly
A long-awaited collection that intersects imaginatively with Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, The Wizard of Oz, and Flannery O’Connor. Includes John Kessel’s modern classic sequence about life on the moon.
Winner of the Nebula, Sturgeon, Locus, and Tiptree awards, John Kessel is the author of The New York Times Notable Book Meeting in Infinity. He co-edited the anthologies Feeling Very Strange and Rewired. Kessel and his family live in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he co-directs the creative writing program at North Carolina State University.
Corrupting Dr. Nice
by John Kessel
from Tor Books
In John Kessel's world, time travel has given humanity a great gift: the ability to exploit an almost infinite number of alternate pasts. And exploit it they have. Sightseeing tours to the crucifixion and front row seats at Caesar's assassination are just the beginning. But nice-guy Dr. Owen Vannice just wants to bring a dinosaur named Wilma forward for study. Then he meets August and Genevieve, a father-and-daughter con artist team, and together they land in the middle of a past revolt. "Entertaining, funny, and, best of all, highly serious," according to author Connie Willis.
Enemy Mine/Another Orphan (Tor Double Novel, No 6)
The Pure Product
by John Kessel
from Tor Books
Nebula Award winner John Kessel is one of the best short-SF writers of the 1990s. His stories are intelligent, literate, sometimes metafictional, often black-humored. They can be as hard and piercing as a rapier, yet they always have a tang of insightful compassion. The seventeen stories in The Pure Product examine human nature, destiny, and identity through alternate history, quantum universes, relativity, and time travel; through omnipotent beings and alien cultures; and through memory manipulation and role reversals. "Invaders" juxtaposes the Spanish conquest of the Incas with an equally devastating near-future alien invasion. In "Animals," humans have been turned into pets for powerful and inscrutable beings, and one man's encounter with a human who has never lived under alien control has unexpected and dangerous consequences. In "Hearts Do Not in Eyes Shine," an estranged couple seeks to rescue their relationship by regaining trust through selective memory erasure--but one of the lovers may have lied about undergoing the procedure.
Nine of The Pure Product's seventeen stories previously appeared in Meeting in Infinity; two stories appear for the first time in The Pure Product. --Cynthia Ward
Nebula Award winner John Kessel has gained a wide readership and resounding critical acclaim with his brilliantly entertaining comic science fiction novels Good News from Outer Space and Corrupting Dr. Nice. Nowhere is Kessels talent more evident than in his short fiction. The Pure Product brings together for the first time in one volume nineteen of his finest stories from the past decade: an extraordinary body of work by one of the fields most accomplished writers.Kessel is a superb satirist with a keen eye for detailing the human spirit. ~ The Philadelphia Inquirer
Meeting in Infinity: Allegories & Extrapolations
Good News From Outer Space
by John Kessel
from Orb Books
Freedom Beach
Mrs. Schummel Exits a Winner
Mrs. Schummel just needs a little luck in the Bingo parlor to forget all her worldly troubles. She didn't count on the mute boy's astonishing offer. Nebula Award Nominee
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